2.      I have already tried this, when I proposed the model of the American Main Street for the central roads of Romania?s capital, using the approach and arguments advanced by Robert Venturi in his 1996 book, where he stated: ?Main Street is almost alright.? (p. ???????) The nuance ?almost? introduced into the imposed perfection of the Venturian model, a nuance to which ? after my own substantial American experience ? I subscribe, is something we lack. We will not accept anything approximate and partial. But why then do all our attempts to acclimatize a model look strikingly like the straw copies of the planes and ships that some cargo-cultic tribe chanced to lye eyes on?

3.      See Ioana Tudora, ?Maidanul ca alternativă. Spontaneitate versus planificare? / ?The maidan as an alternative. Spontaneity vs. planning?, in Ciprian Mihali, 2001, pp. 123-133.

4.      See the study dedicated by Sanda Voiculescu (1997) to this molecular type of articulating the medieval city of Bucharest around the parish.

5.      The successive additions of the ?80s and the urbanism contest of the early ?90s not only left the cut of the piazza unsolved, but they introduced edified and virtual elements able to disturb the place (the overbuilding of the southern flank with edifices of an excessive height as compared to the context, the expected emergence of a number of problematic ?towers? on one side of the Victoria Palace and along the rim bordering on the Titulescu Blvd).

6.      For instance, von Gerkhan?s suggestion that Piaţa Unirii be transformed into a lake is downright ludicrous: the Bucharest subway gets damp and wet with every rain drop ? there?s no need of a huge water platform on top of it?

Harhoiu, Dana, 2001, Bucuresti, un oras între Orient si Occident/Bucharest (A City Between Orient and Occident), Bucureşti, Simetria (second edition).

Ioan, Augustin, 1999, Power, Play and National Identity, Bucureşti, Romanian Cultural Foudation Press.

 2000, Bizanţ după Bizanţ după Bizanţ (Byzantium after Byzantium after Byzantium), Constanţa, Ex Ponto.

 Leach, Neil, 2000, Anestetica, Bucureşti, Paideia.